Cave Wars table + game for BLAM. P.35 - Giant Apes!

[Michi]

Cue "Also sprach Zarathustra"... 

[Constable Bertrand]

Will there be a large black obelisk atop the hill Richard.

Cheers
Matt.

[Captain Blood]

This has been asked elsewhere, and the answer is no.

You should know however, that something is going to happen. Something wonderful...

 

[Michi]

You should know however, that something is going to happen. Something wonderful...

Ah, you plan to re-play my (in)famous Fertilisation scenario... 
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=12274.0

[Captain Blood]

There may be certain similarities. Although perhaps with less mating 
My scenario is going to be more 'can your clan escape with your lives?'

[kidterminal]

There may be certain similarities. Although perhaps with less mating 
My scenario is going to be more 'can your clan escape with your lives?'

Or with your wives?

[von Lucky]

Run from the hills, run for your lives.

[Mason]

And run from your wives!

[von Lucky]

Stone Maiden. They rock.

[Duke Donald]

These chimps are brilliant, the board too BTW.

[FramFramson]

Cue "Also sprach Zarathustra"... 

 

[Jakar Nilson]

Cue "Also sprach Zarathustra"... 

A bunch of intellectuals walk into a cave, talk a bit then walk out, only to be gobbled up by a lion?

[Captain Blood]

And you're back in the room...



Progress on the lid...

First the slab with its irregular frontage is carved down to approximate shape using hot wire cutter.
Then there's really no choice but to use a craft knife and a set of tweezers to hack and drag out the various trails and depressions in a messy, old fashioned way (because the hot wire cutter can't get into those sorts of angles).







Having got the basic shape, it's gradually sanded out (using the Dremel) shaped, and more mass gradually carved away with the hot wire cutter to achieve some natural looking gradients on the trails, which figures will be able to stand up on.
Then some extra pieces of foam carved and fixed in place with woodglue to form hilltops...





The first fix of greenery has now gone onto the new donga end section and onto the cave frontage / escarpment itself... More to follow...





Next step is to use wall filler to even out the slopes and properly contour the hilly ground on top of the cave system. Then apply the texturising gloop and rocky set dressing... 

[Phil Robinson]

Looks fantastic already.

[Mason]

Looking very good, sir.
Most promising.
 

Could I suggest that you add a couple of holes lined up with each other between levels.
A small dowel peg or two should help keep things together when a clumsy numpty comes along and nudges it, revealing all before time.
Holes with a dowel would also not stop you from removing them so that you can slide it back and forth unimpeded if you just remove the dowel.